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All the ideas for 'Continental Philosophy - V. Short Intro', 'The Individuation of Events' and 'Primary Truths'

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1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

7068	If infatuation with science leads to bad scientism, its rejection leads to obscurantism [Critchley]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy

7075	To meet the division in our life, try the Subject, Nature, Spirit, Will, Power, Praxis, Unconscious, or Being [Critchley]

7069	The French keep returning, to Hegel or Nietzsche or Marx [Critchley]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

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Davidson controversially proposed to quantify over events [Davidson, by Engelbretsen]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive

9843	You can't identify events by causes and effects, as the event needs to be known first [Dummett on Davidson]

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Events can only be individuated causally [Davidson, by Schaffer,J]

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We need events for action statements, causal statements, explanation, mind-and-body, and adverbs [Davidson, by Bourne]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8278	The claim that events are individuated by their causal relations to other events is circular [Lowe on Davidson]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

9155	An a priori proof is independent of experience [Leibniz]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

7067	Food first, then ethics [Critchley]